05-15-2005, 12:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-15-2005, 01:10 AM by Bharatvarsh.)
"Same reason for why the Prophet Muhammad found it necessary to put an end to all idol-worship and demi-god worship, because these temples undermine the monotheistic philosophy. This is the same reason why Moses banned deity-worship, which was clearly a part of ancient Semitic religion. After being pushed around, after losing large parts of their religious teaching, the Hebrews had started to concoct rituals, innovate different âformsâ of deity, etc. This innovation and cheap mimickry in religion had to be stopped in order to save monotheism itself, even though its more esoteric concepts would have to be shelved for a while by banning certain forms of ritual (which try to symbolize and drive home philosophical points)"
But who gave Muhammad and Moses the right to ban something just because they didn't like it. This is very much akin to fascism and dictatorship, this is what Communist states do. If they didn't like it they should have debated the leaders of these religious sects and should have converted them but Muhammad on the other hand adopted forced conversion and destruction of idols as his policy, this is not what some supposed prophets of God are supposed to behave like. The Sikh gurus also didn't like Polytheism and idol worship (atleast that's what Sikhs say) and criticised them but they never went around forcibly converting ppl and breaking idols. So according to u any philosophy which does not supp monotheism is to be put to an end, Muhammad had every right to do this and preach his new religion but he had no right to forcibly convert ppl and break idols just because he didn't like the pagan religion of the Arabs.
But who gave Muhammad and Moses the right to ban something just because they didn't like it. This is very much akin to fascism and dictatorship, this is what Communist states do. If they didn't like it they should have debated the leaders of these religious sects and should have converted them but Muhammad on the other hand adopted forced conversion and destruction of idols as his policy, this is not what some supposed prophets of God are supposed to behave like. The Sikh gurus also didn't like Polytheism and idol worship (atleast that's what Sikhs say) and criticised them but they never went around forcibly converting ppl and breaking idols. So according to u any philosophy which does not supp monotheism is to be put to an end, Muhammad had every right to do this and preach his new religion but he had no right to forcibly convert ppl and break idols just because he didn't like the pagan religion of the Arabs.